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  2. THE POULTRY RUN.

    This bad habit is frequently noted in suburban poultry yards. Why? Because the restricted accomodation causes the fowls to be kept crowded ...

    Article : 291 words
  3. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

    It is said that diamonds have been discovered in fallen meteors. Peat is largely used in stoking the railway engines in Sweden. ...

    Article : 898 words
  4. ANIMAL SWIMMERS.

    Nearly all animals are better swimmers than man and take to the water naturally, while he has to learn to propel himself. The ...

    Article : 280 words
  5. PROFESSOR ON LOVE.

    A New York University professor recently gave his opinion on the tender passion, and said that romantic love began with the Crusaders. ...

    Article : 523 words
  6. FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

    A friend was in a shop in inverness one day, when to her surprise a very handsome collie jumped on to a chair by her side and pushed his head ...

    Article : 195 words
  7. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS

    A portable military searchlight has been developed in the Italian Army, which is said to have several novel features. The motor-car which ...

    Article : 107 words
  8. RANDOM READINGS.

    Home life in France is far more an institution, and the "cercle de families" far more important, than in English homes, but it is so seldom ...

    Article : 341 words
  9. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    A successful competitor for the cup as a prize in a footrace made this graceful temperance speech in accepting it: "Gentlemen, I have won ...

    Article : 1,031 words
  10. WHY THE STARS TWINKLE.

    Although the twinkling of the stars is commonly referred to, they do not twinkle at all. The stars are really suns that throw out light, just ...

    Article : 128 words
  11. MR. SPLICER'S UMBRELLA SHOP.

    There was once a gentleman who sold umbrellas. He had a little umbrella shop, in the window of which was a tremendous swirl made entirely ...

    Article : 686 words
  12. WOOD AND WATER

    It is well known that all wood contains more or less water; even the driest wood contains two or three pounds of water to every hundred ...

    Article : 159 words
  13. A HIGH CHAIR.

    Where a high chair is not at hand or available, an ordinary solid-bottom kitchen chair can be used instead, if rigged, up as shown in the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 89 words
  14. SICK FOWLS.

    Don't doctor them; instead, kill them, and burn the bodies. Don't bury them; if you do, a stray dog or the other birds may scratch up the ...

    Article : 622 words
  15. A VALIANT WOMAN.

    Not very long ago an old woman died in the hospital of St. Nicolas du Port whose name was Antoinette Lix. She was a veteran of two wars, and ...

    Article : 547 words
  16. A SCULPTOR'S PNEUMATIC CHISEL.

    Lorado Taft. a Chicago sculptor, it is stated, has installed in his studio a pneumatic chisel, by means of which the work of outlining marble statues ...

    Article : 165 words
  17. SUCH FRIENDLY FEELINGS.

    For twenty minutes Brown had sat staring helplessly at the empty table in front of him. Still there was no sign of the lunch which he had ...

    Article : 148 words
  18. WHITE WITH GRIEF.

    Times were bad, shocking bad. "It's most enuff to make one grow honest," grumbled the dog-stealer, as he pored through the "Lost and ...

    Article : 121 words
  19. WARMER THAN WOOL.

    Kapok, the strange name of a material out of which they are now mailing mattresses, lifebelts, pillows, linings for clothes, even underwear, ...

    Article : 315 words
  20. THE LEAVINGS.

    In a certain school the teacher was vainly trying to teach word-building, telling the children that if the first letter is taken from some words ...

    Article : 96 words
  21. NOTHING DOING.

    Brown has a bad reputation among his friends. He's very quick to borrow, and equally slow at returning. The other morning he met a friend in ...

    Article : 107 words
  22. A BIT MUDDLED.

    A toper, who had been keeping up the last day allowed for "treating," was returning home late at night, when he lost his way, the darkened ...

    Article : 108 words
  23. HIS ONLY CHANCE

    A young man, who could not by any means be called good-looking, was rather annoyed because his view of the stage was obstructed by the hat ...

    Article : 100 words
  24. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

    "Off! Off!" The words came like a shriek of despair from the lips of the struggling man, and there was intense agony ...

    Article : 142 words
  25. THE OLD AND THE NEW.

    Seated side by side on the sofa, the young man and his maid, exchanged their thoughts. Presently the former screwed up his courage. ...

    Article : 135 words
  26. THE REASON WHY.

    Many are the vicissitudes through which politicians pass, and few are more annoying then the "voice" from the back of the hall. It is dreaded ...

    Article : 122 words
  27. EACH TO HIS JOB.

    "Yes, I did pretty well by my sons," said the old man thoughtfully. "I trained one of them to be a doctor and the other to be a lawyer." ...

    Article : 127 words
  28. HIS IMPRESSION.

    A workman, having had a gum of money left him on the death of his father, went to sea his solicitor, who had the matter in hand, for a final ...

    Article : 88 words
  29. THE LESSER EVIL.

    Lilian was strong-minded. She didn't believe in marriage; she'd never trust a man, not she! So when Madge announced her ...

    Article : 65 words
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